Titanoceros thermoptera

Titanoceros thermoptera is a species of snout moth described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903. It is found in Australia.[2]

Titanoceros thermoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Titanoceros
Species:
T. thermoptera
Binomial name
Titanoceros thermoptera
(Lower, 1903)[1]
Synonyms
  • Jocara thermoptera Lower, 1903

The larvae are predacious on the eggs of Ochrogaster thermoptera.[3]

References
  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. "Titanoceros Meyrick, 1884" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  3. Moths of Australia



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